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Belmondo, Seberg and the jump cut; the New Wave arrives in one film.

An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

Simone Signoret as an ageing ex-prostitute raising the children of others in Belleville.

Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.

Bresson's thief in Paris, filmed as hands and gestures, and the ending in the prison.

Two hours in the life of a singer waiting for a cancer diagnosis, in near real time through Paris.